Bruce Herschensohn

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Stanley Bruce Herschensohn
Born	September 10, 1932(1932-09-10) Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Residence	Washington, D.C.
Nationality	United States
Spouse(s)	Bunny Domenic, March 8, 1963
Parents	Herbert Lawrence Herschensohn Ida Esther (Erlichman) Herschensohn
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Stanley Bruce Herschensohn (born September 10, 1932) is an American political commentator and senior fellow at the Pepperdine School of Public Policy near Malibu, California.

Previously, Herschensohn has been a Distinguished Fellow at the Claremont Institute and a fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Political campaigns

1986 U.S. Senate primary election

In 1986, Herschensohn unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for the United States Senate held by the liberal Democrat Alan Cranston. He did well in the San Fernando Valley^[2] but finished second to U.S. Representative Ed Zschau of the Silicon Valley, who won the nomination by plurality.

In the general election, Cranston defeated Zschau to secure his fourth and final Senate term. Zschau, considered a moderate to liberal Republican later left the GOP and became an independent.

1992 U.S. Senate primary election

In 1992, when Cranston retired, Herschensohn won the Republican nomination narrowly defeating U.S. Representative Tom Campbell, a libertarian Republican who had been on the faculty of Stanford University. Herschensohn received 956,136 votes (38.2 percent) to Campbell's 895,970 (35.8 percent). The remaining 417,848 ballots (16.7 percent) went to Mayor Sonny Bono of Palm Springs. During the primary campaign and afterwards, Herschensohn became a close friend of Bono and encouraged his former rival to seek election to the United States House of Representatives in 1994.^{[citation needed]} Bono was part of the freshman class in 1995 which brought a Republican majority to the U.S. House for the first time in forty years.

1992 U.S. Senate general election

Herschensohn, a Los Angeles area television commentator, lost the 1992 general election, to liberal Democrat then U.S. Representative Barbara Boxer after a last-minute revelation that Herschensohn had attended a strip club..^[3]

Four days before the election polls showed Herschensohn closing the gap and only one point behind. Political operative Bob Mulholland disrupted a campaign appearance with a large poster advertising a strip club shouting "Should the voters of California elect someone who frequently travels the strip joints of Hollywood?" Herschensohn admitted he had visited a strip club once, with his girlfriend and another couple. But press coverage of his "frequenting" such establishment required him to spend the waning days of the campaign denying related allegations. Barbara Boxer won the election by five points. (Mrs. Boxer subsequently denounced Mulholland, and then party chairman Phil Angelides suspended him from his employment as political director of the California Democratic Party. The party reinstated him weeks later.)^[4][5][6]

Career

• RKO Pictures, Los Angeles, CA
  • studio messenger, 1950-51
  • in art department, 1953-55
• General Dynamics Corp., Convair Division, San Diego, CA, film maker and director, 1955-56
• self-employed film director, producer, and writer in Los Angeles, CA, 1956-68
• U.S. Information Agency, Washington, DC, director of Motion Picture and Television Service, 1968-72
• White House, Washington, D.C.
  • staff assistant to president, 1972-73
  • deputy special assistant, 1973-74
• self-employed film director, producer, and writer, 1975-76
• free-lance writer, 1976--
• Teacher in "U.S. Image Abroad" program of University of Maryland, 1972
• lecturer at universities and institutes of learning
• Member of board of trustees of American Film Institute, 1967--
• U.S. delegation to International Film Festival
  • chairman of delegation, Czechoslovakia, 1968
  • member of delegation in U.S.S.R., 1969
• Member of board of governors of Charles Edison Memorial Youth Foundation
• consultant to 1972 Republican National Convention
• commentator for Los Angeles television station KABC-TV in the 1980s

Authorship

Herschensohn has written a number of books on foreign policy, his most recent being Taiwan: The Threatened Democracy.

• The Gods of Antenna, Arlington House, 1976.
• Hong Kong at the Handover (Editor), Lexington Books, Lanham, Maryland, 1999.
• Across the Taiwan Strait: Democracy: The Bridge Between Mainland China and Taiwan (Editor), Lexington Books, 2002.
• Herschensohn, Bruce (2008). Above Empyrean : a novel of the final days of the war on Islamic terrorism (1st ed.). New York: Beaufort Books. ISBN 9780825305160. http://lccn.loc.gov/2008015698. Retrieved 2008-12-07. 
• Herschensohn, Bruce (2006). Taiwan : the threatened democracy. Los Angeles, CA: World Ahead Pub. ISBN 9780977898428. http://lccn.loc.gov/2006933774. Retrieved 2008-12-07. 
• Herschensohn, Bruce (2003). Passport: A Novel of The Cold War (1st ed.). New York: I Books. ISBN 9780743479844. 
• Author of films
  • "Tall Man Five-Five", (Strategic Air Command)
  • "Karma", International Communications Foundation
  • "The President", U.S. Information Agency
  • "Bridges of the Barrios", U.S. Information Agency
  • "The Five Cities of June", U.S. Information Agency
  • "John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Days of Drums", U.S. Information Agency
  • "Eulogy to 5:02", U.S. Information Agency
• Contributor of stories to, among others
  • Conservative Digest
  • Newsday
  • Newsweek
  • Human Events
  • Saturday Evening Post
  • newspapers

Awards

• Arthur S. Flemming Award, 1969
• Academy Award from Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 1970, for short documentary film "Czechoslovakia: 1968"
• Academy Award nominations, 1969 and 1972
• distinguished service award from U.S. Information Agency, 1972
• award from Council Against Communist Aggression, 1972

References

External links

• Brief Bio on Pepperdine University website